carnivorous

英 [kɑːˈnɪvərəs]

美 [kɑːrˈnɪvərəs]

adj.  (动物)食肉的; (人)爱吃肉的，肉食性的

TOEFLGRE医学

BNC.23095 / COCA.20396

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (动物)食肉的
  Carnivorousanimals eat meat.
  1. Snakes are carnivorous.
     蛇是食肉动物。
• (人)爱吃肉的，肉食性的
  Carnivorouscan be used, especially humorously, to describe someone who eats meat.

英英释义

adj

• (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals
  1. carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects
• relating to or characteristic of carnivores
  1. the lion and other carnivorous animals

双语例句

• Any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals.
  猎取和捕杀其它动物的多种食肉性鸟。
• Most wild carnivorous mammals are monestrous.
  大多数肉食野生动物都是每年发情一次。
• This is the website of Carnivorous Plant Newsletter.
  这是肉食植物通讯的网站。
• Tigers, lions and leopards are all ferocious carnivorous animals.
  老虎、狮子和豹都是凶猛的食肉动物。
• Herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile.
  有着与鳄鱼类似的三叉形骨盆的食草或食肉恐龙。
• Late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus.
  后侏罗纪的食肉恐龙；与暴龙形似但有点小。
• Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur.
  淡水食肉哺乳动物，脚有蹼和爪，深褐色皮毛。
• Carnivorous animals have a very small caecum.
  食肉类动物的盲肠很小。
• Although he is carnivorous, he will also eat vegetables, and when sickly he will nibble grass.
  他虽然是肉食性，他也会吃蔬菜，害病的时候，他会蚕食草。
• Large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws.
  爪巨大的大型食肉类两足恐龙。